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3/4/2014 4:45 PM
 

Hi all

I was wondering if its possible to change the URL parameter "?Language" EG: ?Language=[locale], to something else?

I want to change it from "Language=" to "lang="

 EG: ?lang=[locale]

 Is this possible? Thx!

 
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3/4/2014 7:03 PM
 
the code explicitly checks for request.querystring["language"] - we could do it but it would require amending a number of places in code and could potentially impact other modules (e.g. what happens if one is already using "lang" for something else, or one expects to read "language" to do it's own logic). You could do it by using a urlrewriting rule, and that would probably work but it's a small overhead on each page request (particularly if using siteurls.config)

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3/5/2014 9:40 AM
 

Thanks for your reply. The reason why I need to change the "Language" url parameter is because due our strict company policies when dealing with the naming of the URL parameters.

I am aware of the rewrite rules but I dont want it to redirect to show the "Language" url parameter in the URL address bar.

Can the rewrite rules mimic it so that it will keep the "lang" url parameter but redirect in the background?

Current:
http:// www.dnn.com/index.aspx?Language=en-CA

Needed:
http:// www.dnn.com/index.aspx?lang=en-CA

Thanks in advance,

 
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3/5/2014 5:41 PM
 
the way urlrewrite works is that it rewrites what you see (in the url bar) but keeps the context the same i.e. the url would see "lang=.." but to the code it's still "language=..."

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3/6/2014 8:33 AM
 

Thanks for your reply. But from what I can see, the urlrewrite only does a "redirect", not a rewrite.

If I look in the SiteUrls.config file, the elements are "lookFor", and "SendTo". Is there another type that we can specified to have it rewrite instead of redirect?

 
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